College Rankings. U.S. News & World Report periodically provides its rankings of national universities, and in a recent year the ranks for Princeton, Harvard, and Yale were 1, 2, and 3, respectively. What level of measurement is most appropriate?
Ordinal level of ranking consists of only categories in which the data can be arranged in a specific order. This level of measurement is used for giving names and categorizing of items and includes ordering of items.
